Tag: Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole – The Very Thought Of You (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published January 21, 2022

The Very Thought of You is a 1958 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. The album peaked at #17 on Billboard Magazine’s Top LP chart.

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Nat King Cole – Christmas With Nat & Dean! (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Published January 21, 2022

Nat King Cole and Dean Martin are thrown into an awkward festive embrace on this double album of their collected Christmas songs. Martin’s laidback cool enlivens Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! and I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. But on the many standards from his 1966 Christmas Album, his low voice rumbles as though trying to suppress a hearty guffaw, possibly aimed at his risible backing singers.

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Nat King Cole – A Sentimental Christmas with Nat King Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Published December 2, 2021

Nat King Cole – A Sentimental Christmas with Nat King Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit/48kHz | Time – 00:35:48 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

The album for the festival: Christmas classics by Nat “King” Cole, technically refreshed and with current guest stars!

Nat “King” Cole was not only a jazz pianist and one of the most successful pop singers of all time, thanks to his legendary interpretation of the famous “Christmas Song” and several Christmas album bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s, he is now perhaps the singer most associated with Christmas music. No wonder, his soft, warm, yet always radiantly clear voice is perfect for this repertoire.

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Nat King Cole – Sings For Two In Love (1955/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published November 13, 2021

Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love was Nat King Cole’s first album made specifically for the new 12″ LP format. Like Frank Sinatra, with whom he shared a record company and a conductor, Cole made a thematic album with Sings for Two in Love, in this case a set of 12 romantic ballads. But they aren’t actually all for “two in love.” There are songs for two who think “This Can’t Be Love” or that it’s “Almost Like Being in Love,” or who tell each other “Let’s Fall in Love.” And then there are post-love songs — “Autumn Leaves” and “Dinner for One Please, James.” If Cole really is singing for “two in love,” he’s giving them good news and bad. Of course, his plaintive, undisturbed singing makes the happy and sad sentiments seem equally content, and Nelson Riddle’s orchestrations consistently support the singer without challenging him or getting in his way. – William Ruhlmann

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Nat King Cole – Ramblin’ Rose (1962/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published November 13, 2021

Ramblin’ Rose is a Nat King Cole album. It was released by Capitol Records in 1962, and features the popular title track. The LP peaked at #3 on Billboards album chart where it remained for more than a year. It was Nat’s second gold album.

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Nat King Cole – Penthouse Serenade (1955/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published November 13, 2021

Penthouse Serenade is an instrumental jazz quartet album by Nat King Cole. It was released initially as a 10-inch LP in September, 1952, on Capitol Records. This 2021 release brings a brand new remaster of the album to modern audiences!

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Nat King Cole – Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer (1963/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published October 25, 2021

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer is a 1963 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Ralph Carmichael.[1] The album reached #14 on Billboard’s LP chart.

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Nat King Cole – The Unforgettable Nat King Cole Sings The Great Songs (1966/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published October 25, 2021

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway. He was the first African-American man to host an American television series. He was the father of singer-songwriter Natalie Cole (1950-2015).

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Nat King Cole – Nat King Cole Sings – George Shearing Plays (1962/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published October 25, 2021

Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays is a 1962 studio album by Nat King Cole, featuring the pianist George Shearing. The album peaked at 27 on the Billboard album chart.

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Nat King Cole – Looking Back (1965/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Published October 25, 2021

Six months after Nat King Cole’s untimely death, Capitol Records issued this compilation LP, which did not bode well for its stewardship of his recorded legacy. Nominally speaking, the album was a collection of tracks from the late ’50s previously released only on singles and EPs, which would have made it, if a minor Cole collection, nevertheless welcome to fans and collectors. But the three songs that had been the biggest hits among the selections, “Looking Back,” “Send for Me,” and “If I May” (all Top Ten records), were not the original recordings, but the re-recordings Cole had done for his album The Nat King Cole Story in 1961. As if that weren’t bad enough, the recordings had had new guitar and percussion tracks overdubbed to give the music more of a contemporary sound, circa 1965. The result of course was a travesty that did not reflect Cole’s musical taste, even on material that was not among his best work to begin with. – William Ruhlmann